The government shouldn’t provide funding for broadband deployment...
The government shouldn’t provide funding for broadband deployment to areas that may be or are served by an existing broadband provider, wrote Carolyn McIntyre, California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA) president, in an email to us Friday. CCTA advocated on…
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behalf of cable providers in debate over California Advanced Services Fund legislation that provides additional funding for broadband buildout in unserved areas (CD Oct 7 p5). “State subsidies should not be available to local government to compete with existing broadband providers that have built facilities with private investment,” said McIntyre. “SB 740 appropriately recognizes the role of commercial broadband providers that are willing to make private investments by limiting local governments to a role as the provider of last resort."